Bio

I am a biologist and data scientist. Currently, I’m studying the social behavior and movement ecology of griffon vultures in the Pinter-Wollman Lab. Previously, I was a data manager at the Cary Institute and a research assistant with the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project. I’ve written about my work with each of these organizations: Cary | YGDP.

I did my B.S. in EEB at Yale, where I studied physiological tradeoffs in wood frog tadpoles (talk | paper).

I’m interested in advocating for open and reproducible data science and helping others to apply these ideas to their own work. I run “Hacky Hours” at UCLA, and I’m on the Board of Directors for SORTEE. On this site, I also describe some of my own insights in (hopefully!) friendly language.

CV

You can download a recent copy of my CV here.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA Ph.D. Student in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | September 2021 - Present. NSF Graduate Research Fellow 2023; UCLA Graduate Dean’s Research Fellow 2021.

Yale University | New Haven, CT B.S. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | September 2016 - May 2020

Work

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | Database Specialist | June 2020 - August 2021

Yale Grammatical Diversity Project | Research Assistant | September 2018 - March 2021

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History | Student Museum Assistant (Entomology) | September 2016 - May 2020

Contact

I’d love to hear from you! You can find me online using the links to the left, or email me at kaija.gahm@aya.yale.edu.